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Mothering Sunday Lunch
Mother's Day Menu StartersPoets House Cauliflower & Pear Soup -With a Parmesan Straw & a warm artisan roll and butter (V) (VG) £9.00White Crab & Garlic Potato Rosti -Balancing a soft poached egg & lime on top with a small green salad £10.20Pea & Smoked Ham Arancini -Perched on a tomato &...
Spring Lunch Set Menu
Feel the spring in your step and enjoy a delicious lunch at Poets House with our Spring Set Menu. Available Monday to Friday from 12:00 to 15:00, indulge in two courses for £23 or three for £29 in the relaxed setting of Poets House. With our garden now open, it’s...
Fabulous Friday! Dinner, Bed & Breakfast
From £229* for two people (*price may vary depending on availability) Why not book yourself in for our Fabulous Friday offer. Offer includes an overnight stay in one of our beautiful, boutique bedrooms, a bottle of fizz in your room on arrival. Relax and and enjoy dinner (£30 allowance per person) in our...
Two Night Getaway Break
From £649 per room. Available through to December 2025, subject to availability. Includes two nights accommodation, full English breakfast and dinner on your first night. (£30 pp allowance towards dinner, excludes drinks)Escape to the beautiful city of Ely on one of our very special weekend breaks from only £649 per room including dinner on your...
Ely Cathedral
What an absolutely iconic building Ely Cathedral is! The Cathedral has many beautiful performances. Should you wish to attend the services you will need to book your tickets ro reserve your place. Just 500 yards from Poets House, this famous cathedral offers you the most fantastic experience to look around with one...
Sleepy Sunday Offer Dinner, Bed & Breakfast
From £230 per room (subject to availability) Sundays throughout 2025Book our "Sleepy Sunday" offer for Dinner, Bed and Breakfast, available on Sundays throughout 2025.The offer is based on two people sharing a room and includes a £30 per person allowance towards dinner. The offer is subject to availability.
We held our wedding at The Poets House on 27th Oct 2018. We booked it a year in advance and worked with the Events Manager to create our very special day. The hotel delivered - and more. It was amazing. The facilities, including the bedrooms, are top class and the staff are incredibly helpful. Indeed, one guest commented that the staff kept smiling throughout and that makes all the difference. When we entered the Writing Room for the wedding breakfast, it had been dressed to perfection and would have done justice to any elite hotel in the world. The food was superb - everyone loved it. But above all, the ambience of this gem of a hotel made it perfect for us. We can not recommend it highly enough.
Iain & Sally
Wonderful service from Poets House from start to finish! We had a fabulous time - the team, food, rooms and venue were brilliant
Laura & Lain
We had our wedding at poets house it was such an amazing day nothing was to much for them. Thank you to all the staff at Poets House you all helped make our special day so special
Kate & Phil
My husband and I got married and had our reception at Poets House in Ely. The team were extremely attentive and organised, right from when we first looked around to the day after our wedding. We had exclusive use for our wedding, which came with all 21 rooms. We all had a fantastic time and guest were extremely impressed with the rooms and the quality of the food on the day. Breakfast the day after was included for those guests that stayed, and was excellent!
Nicola & Ross
We spent a long time after we got engaged looking for our perfect venue and we were so pleased to find it at Poets House. We had a large Sikh wedding on the Saturday of a bank holiday weekend, followed by a more intimate ceremony and celebration at the lovely Poet's House on the Sunday. It was the ideal size for our 60-something guests and wonderful to have the run of the hotel for a relaxed and fun occasion, as well as the convenience and luxury of having most of our guests staying at the hotel overnight in the beautiful rooms. We first came to Poets House for lunch, and the high quality of the food was a big influence on our making the decision that we'd found the right venue for us. The only difficult part was choosing what to have to eat on our big day because we enjoyed everything at our tasting!
Amy & Gurpal (Part 1)
The team at Poets House are fantastic - Christine in particular was so helpful in the run up to the wedding and keeping everything moving on the day. She was happy to accommodate our requests, including for outdoor games in their courtyard - I recommend giant Jenga! - and would always provide a reassuring response to my last minute panics. The team even created table numbers to match my "art deco" theme. I recommend Poets House for any couple looking for an elegant venue, which offers the flexibility to make your wedding special and personal to you.
Amy and Gurpal (Part 2)
We held our wedding reception and party at the lovely Poet's House. The food was fantastic, as were the bar staff, and we had a perfect day. We hired the rooms out as part of a wedding package and everyone was blown away by how beautiful the rooms were, and very excited about using the copper baths! Thank you very much.
Rachel & Dan
The team at Poets House were fantastic and made our wedding day so special from start to finish. The team did a great job in laying out the writing room and changing the room around quickly. The food was excellent and all of our guests thoroughly enjoyed it. We would highly recommend Poets House as a wedding venue.
Hotel Guest
We held our wedding at The Poets House. We booked it a year in advance and worked with the Events Manager to create our very special day. The hotel delivered - and more. It was amazing. The facilities, including the bedrooms, are top class and the staff are incredibly helpful. Indeed, one guest commented that the staff kept smiling throughout and that makes all the difference. When we entered the Writing Room for the wedding breakfast, it had been dressed to perfection and would have done justice to any elite hotel in the world. The food was superb - everyone loved it. But above all, the ambience of this gem of a hotel made it perfect for us. We can not recommend it highly enough.
Iain & Sally
Wonderful service from Poets House from start to finish! We had a fabulous time - the team, food, rooms and venue were brilliant
Laura & Lain
We had our wedding at poets house it was such an amazing day nothing was to much for them. Thank you to all the staff at Poets House you all helped make our special day so special
Kate & Phil
My husband and I got married and had our reception at Poets House in Ely. The team were extremely attentive and organised, right from when we first looked around to the day after our wedding. We had exclusive use for our wedding, which came with all 21 rooms. We all had a fantastic time and guest were extremely impressed with the rooms and the quality of the food on the day. Breakfast the day after was included for those guests that stayed, and was excellent!
Nicola & Ross
A truly welcoming atmosphere in this historic city. We had a small family gathering to surprise our loved one on their birthday and all stayed overnight. I was anxious that the recipient of the surprise was not alerted to it, and the hotel reception staff were part of keeping that secret. Everything about this hotel was great. The staff are friendly and efficient in all areas of the hotel. The decor is tasteful and helps create a calm and comfortable environment. The bar is a great place for pre and post dinner drinks with a great selection. Everybody in our party enjoyed dinner and breakfast next morning, and all were impressed with the comfort and facilities provided in the rooms.
Tracey
We really enjoyed our overnight stay at The Poets House which has a great location close to the historical centre of Ely. We enjoyed a light lunch in the bar on arrival (which was very good) then enjoyed exploring Ely on foot during our stay (which included the Cathedral, shops, large riverside antiques centre and riverside walk). Our room (14) has beautiful views of the Cathedral and the room was comfortably appointed. Dinner and breakfast were both excellent. Staff were friendly and attentive. I booked parking close by but turns out the hotel does have a small offsite secure car park with complimentary parking which we’ll probably use next time. Highly recommended
GailW
We held our wedding reception and party at the lovely Poet's House. The food was fantastic, as were the bar staff, and we had a perfect day. We hired the rooms out as part of a wedding package and everyone was blown away by how beautiful the rooms were, and very excited about using the copper baths! Thank you very much.
Rachel & Dan
Birthday night away. Found the hotel in secret escapes and had the best of time. The room had a stand alone copper bath…….wow, not only did it look amazing, but enjoying a soak in it was sooooo relaxing.. The hotel is fantastic, the staff were amazing, the dinner and breakfast were superb, the bed and facilities in the room top notch and the overall experience was excellent. Would love to come back in the summer when Ely could be explored in warmer weather.
Hotel Guest
Ely’s most relaxed and consistently good venue for drinks and fine dining, but it’s the service that makes it stand out - you always feel comfortable and valued as a customer and nothing is too much trouble. The team is outstanding, thx.
Diner
Have now been here twice, first time in the bar and then in the dining room. Both times were perfect with attentive and friendly staff and all menus served in both locations. Would definitely recommend and looking forward to returning in the summer to experience the garden area which looks really inviting.
Mark
Wonderful service - the staff simply cannot do enough for you - very friendly and attentive, without being intrusive. The food was delicious and in generous portions. Highly rated!
Gill
A memorable experience on a memorable day My daughter and her new husband were married in the morning and we treated ourselves to a night at Poets House to celebrate. The staff went out of their way to make this a truly memorable and beautiful experience for us. The location, facilities and staff were exceptional. We want to thank them dearly.
Christopher
Lovely hotel and location, right opposite the cathedral and for a lovely stroll into the 'city' centre. Rooms were lovely, lady at reception very friendly as were the various cleaners we bumped into and our room was lovely and big with a huge copper bath in the bathroom.
We had dinner in the restaurant which was lovely, apart from some guest who decided it was ok to have a loud mobile phone conversation for about 20 minutes in a small hotel restaurant, but that's not the hotel's fault at all!
We had a light lunch also there, which again was lovely, although the chap who looked like he was maybe running the restaurant (with a moustache) comes across somewhat aloof, promised to bring us menus outside and never did, so I had to chase him up after we'd waited about 20 minutes, and even then took an age to come back and take our order. He needs to learn to smile a bit more and chill out!
Steve (Part 1)
The lady, who I'm guessing runs the hotel also, is lovely however, couldn't do more for you. The car park arrangement is fine, considering you can't park your car on-site and they have a designated secure area in the public car-park about 5 mins walk away so you drive into the hotel, drop your bags off and then leave your car elsewhere afterwards, which seemed to work just fine.
So all in all, a really nice place to stay in a really lovely place so highly recommend.